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title: The Roe was petted and caressed, and ran about at will in the palace… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Roe was petted and caressed, and ran about at will in the palace gardens. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 82

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The Roe was petted and caressed, and ran about at will in the palace gardens.

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**What happens:** pet, caress, run about · **To what, where:** Roe, palace gardens

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:10:82
# text = The Roe was petted and caressed, and ran about at will in the palace gardens.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Roe	Roe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	petted	pet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	caressed	caress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pet** | past · passive |  | the Roe |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **caress** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run about** | past |  |  |  | the palace gardens |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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